A short conversational excerpt from a May 17, 2025 YouTube video by Ben Greenfield. Speakers discuss how people waste daily time (e.g., scrolling phones, comparing themselves), the irreversibility of time, and the difficulty of altering habits to gain more time. The speakers express a drive to avoid being average and emphasize treating time as a precious, non-replaceable asset.
And yet on a daily basis, how much of it are we really wasting? How much time are we spending scrolling on our phones, comparing ourselves to other people, stressing about the past, anxiety about the future, spitting on disregarding this one most precious asset that we really have?
So when it comes to this idea of not being able to buy time, I think a lot of people get it when they hear that and they're like, hey, time is money. I won't get it back. And yet there still seems to be a constant struggle for many, many people when it comes to actually figuring out how to alter their habits and their daily routine to get or have the time that they need.
None of us that are listening to this, you and I, having this conversation, have any aspirations to be average in anything we do in life. I have zero. I've never wanted to be average at anything that I do.
The Solution to Aging Might Be Closer Than Anyone Realizes - With Ben Goertzel
